Donnhof Oberhauser Brucke Riesling Spatlese 2024

A sweet white passito from the Moselle-Saar-Ruwer region of Germany, produced by Dönnhoff. The 2024 vintage is a Spätlese Riesling that enchants with its complexity and harmony. The nose is broad and exuberantly intense, yet delicate and detailed: a highly concentrated aroma of Kaiser pear leads to a bloom of fresh yellow roses and orange blossoms; the first tropical hints and a characteristic, stony, whispered minerality. It is a pale golden yellow with greenish reflections, brilliant and consistent. On the palate, it truly shines: quite warm and very soft, it allows the slightly liqueur-like juice, under the banner of an airy creaminess free of any heaviness, to suggest sensations of lemon curd, white peach, vanilla, and an early hint of caramel. A very fresh splash of lime and then a less citrusy but more sunny taste of lychee, with the minerality somewhere between metallic and stony that re-emerges in the radiant persistence, marking its trait.